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Maya Daneva (Bulgarian Cyrillic: Мая Данева; born January 6, 1968, Iambol, Bulgaria), Canadian who holds a PhD in computer science and is an associate professor in a Dutch university. She is a member of the British Haiku Society and editor of its newsletter The Brief. She is also a member of the Haiku Society of America, the Deutsche Haiku-Gesellschaft, and the Bulgarian Haiku Union (Български хайку съюз). Her work has appeared in Frogpond, Sommergrass, Haiku Heute, Chrysanthemum,Blithe Spirit, hedgerow, tsuri-dōrō, Mainichi Haiku in English and many other publications as well as anthologies including the 2020 Red Moon Anthology. Daneva has won prizes in the Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum Haiku Contest (2020), the Mainichi Haiku Contest (2021), the Ito en Oi Ocha Shinhaiku Contest (2022); the Kusamakura Haiku Competition and the Maya Lyubenova Contest (2023), and the Haiku International Association Haiku Contest (2024) and has appeared on European Top 100 Haiku Authors (2020–2024). Daneva currently serves as an editor of Haikupdia. She resides in Enschede, the Netherlands.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.